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Zynga is a painter that makes every brush stroke while looking at a spreadsheet instead of the canvas. They've now been outcompeted by painters who keep one ey
by soup10 11y ago
Zynga is a painter that makes every brush stroke while looking at a spreadsheet instead of the canvas. They've now been outcompeted by painters who keep one eye on the canvas and one eye on the spreadsheet. That's progress I guess.
- bunderbunder 11y agoYou mean like King? Nah, I'm not seeing a whole lot of progress there. And I think there's some risk to trying to retrodict these kinds of events. It's just too easy to pick up on coincidences and assign too much importance to them. It becomes especially dangerous in light of this big data fad in which it's become common to believe that you really can infer causation from observed correlations, and then feel confident betting entire businesses on it.